samba - Feb 2003 - (fwd) FW: Starting a process from a windows client

----- Forwarded message from "Scattergood, Ivan"
<Ivan.Scattergood@uk.fid-intl.com> -----

I am hoping to run a Unix process from code running on a windows client, I
am told this can be done using Samba, does any one have any example code to
do this? 

Regards 
Ivan Scattergood 
London  Software Development

----- End forwarded message -----
-- 
Martin

A simple way would be this:
Create a share called Process. This would correspond to a directory on
the server called Process. Into the directory put the names of processes you
would like to run, Process1, Process2, etc.
Create a subdirectory called Run beneath Process. On the samba server, have
a daemon running which watches for files in Run. When a file is found, the
daemon will invoke the process based on the file name, then remove the
process.
Sounds simple, anyway. Security and permissions will of course be a
headache.
Joel

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:31:31PM +1100, Martin Pool
wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from "Scattergood, Ivan"
<Ivan.Scattergood@uk.fid-intl.com> -----
> 
> I am hoping to run a Unix process from code running on a windows client, I
> am told this can be done using Samba, does any one have any example code to
> do this? 
> 
> Regards 
> Ivan Scattergood 
> London  Software Development
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> -- 
> Martin 
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